Word: stolidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ILLINOIS. Honest Abe sits somber and silent in a high-back chair, rises, bows, and delivers a 10-min. oration. Disney's Lincoln is a little stolid, but then he is stuffed with things like steel, air tubes and hydraulic valves...
This series of shifts and sales has focused attention on the man who has remained stolid and stationary, President Harry Vickers, 65. A self-made engineer, Vickers achieved success 40 years ago by inventing advanced hydraulic controls for trucks. He formed Vickers Manufacturing Co. and through a series of mergers ultimately came to the top of Sperry Rand. Today he controls the company because he is the largest shareholder, with one-half of 1% of the widely scattered stock, and has a permissive board that includes several friends. Even when General Douglas MacArthur was chairman, Vickers was the single-minded...
ILLINOIS. Honest Abe sits somber and silent in a high-back chair, rises, bows, and delivers a 10-min. oration. Disney's Lincoln is a little stolid, but then he is stuffed with things like steel, air tubes and hydraulic valves...
...Hague, Marcel Breuer built a blunt, lantern-windowed structure as stolid as a Dutch door. In Athens, Walter Gropius used the same Pentelic marble that forms the Parthenon. Edward Durell Stone's grillwork adorns New Delhi like a Hindu temple. In Baghdad, José Luis Sert put up a tentlike structure fit for a caliph and cooled by channels of river water. Saarinen warmed his Oslo embassy with teak screens; Yamasaki lightened his Kobe consulate with airy Japanese panels. The openings of U.S. embassies have come to be as eagerly anticipated as big Broadway first nights. This month...
Marx overreacts. But if he exaggerated Wednesday night, if a brassy harshness seemed sometimes out of place (as in the second movement of the Wolpe Sonata), the artistry of his technique and aptness of his musical sense overcame the initial resistance of all but the most stolid in Wednesday night's audience...